Tens of thousands of Lebanese flee homes in eerily familiar scenes as Israeli strikes leave 52 people dead US-Israel war on Iran – live updates Abu Yehya and his two sons awoke to the sound of bombing in the early hours of Monday morning. A dozen blasts, one just a few hundred metres away, sent them into the streets of Beirut’s southern suburbs. They walked for four hours, bleary-eyed, until they reached the same spot in downtown Beirut where they had fled during the last conflict , 18 months earlier, and curled up on the asphalt. There, they learned Hezbollah had struck Israel, and Lebanon was once again at war. Continue reading...